Consequences of Overcontrolling Media Use

[Dr. Ed Spector] If you have a sort of a “policing state” where you’re being too controlling and succeeding or not, they’re not going to open up with you because they’re going to be worried that you’re going to punish them. And then when they really need you the most, when really something bad happens, they aren’t going to reach out to you and ask for help. And they need us because their frontal lobes are just not developed. And so while they will adopt the technology way quicker than us and they’ll really like know how to do all this stuff that we don’t, what they don’t have is that frontal lobe. They don’t have the problem-solving skills that we have. They don’t have the wisdom that comes with age so that we can issue-spot and know like, “Hey, I think that’s not going to go well.”